Landon McKinley and Maria Noel: A Far Off Theater

A Far Off Theater is a collaboration between Dodd MFA Candidate Landon McKinley and visual artist Maria Noel. This body of work investigates the process of removal and obfuscation. Through  painting and photography, these artists collaboratively fabulate a series of fragmented narratives about a world saturated in perpetual information, isolation, and dusk. Swaths of rich shadow in prints and paintings bring into focus small glimmers of recognizable images sequenced together.

Adah Bennion: (WITH)HOLDING PATTERNS

Perched within the cavernous maw of the Suite Gallery is a strange mass: a conglomeration of rigidly sutured, bone-white produce boxes, emptied of cargo and purpose – their corrugated ghostly bodies, slowly leeched of color and branding by years spent under a vampiric sun. Like an oversized, albinic pearl, it hangs heavy – boldly reflecting back the gallery wall’s hungry gaze, unrelenting in its withholding all that lies within…

Art History Faculty Lecture | Isabelle Wallace

Jasper Johns (born 1930). Target, 1930. Sculptmetal and collage on canvas. Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, MA, gift of Frank Stella (PA 1954), Addison Art Drive, 1991.44
Artwork: Jasper Johns (born 1930). Target, 1930. Sculptmetal and collage on canvas. Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, MA, gift of Frank Stella (PA 1954), Addison Art Drive, 1991.44

 

Associate Professor of Art History Isabelle Loring Wallace will present the lecture "On Duchamp, Johns, and Fountains" for our Art History Faculty Lecture Series.

 

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Lamar Dodd School of Art, N100

Art History Faculty Lecture | Elizabeth Browne

Clodion, Woman with Child, terracotta, ca. 1780-1790. The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens.
Artwork: Clodion, Woman with Child, terracotta, ca. 1780-1790. The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens.

 

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Lamar Dodd School of Art, N100

Teiger Foundation awards $75,000 for 'Beverly's Athens' curatorial project supported by the Athenaeum and UGA Press

Image: Beverly Buchanan, "Out of Control," 1991. Artist reproduction of photograph on card-stock. Courtesy of Prudence Lopp. Image Credit: Mo Costello. © Beverly Buchanan. Buchanan in her backyard in Athens, GA, where she is pictured burning several of her wooden shack sculptures. The artist reprinted and distributed photographs of the performance and ritual burning in an edition of postcards.

Artistry Unleashed | Conversations with Accomplished Alumni

Artistry Unleashed poster

Translating the major you love to a career you'll love can be a challenge. At this event, presented by the Lamar Dodd School of Art in partnership with the UGA Career Center and the UGA Mentor Program, a panel of Lamar Dodd alumni will join us to share information about their careers, including how they chose to incorporate the arts into their career paths and what steps they took to successfully carve their lives after graduation.

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Lamar Dodd School of Art | S151, Atrium

Spring 2025 Graduation Ceremony

Student at 2024 Spring Graduation Ceremony for the Lamar Dodd School of Art. Photograph courtesy of Jason Thrasher.
Image: Procession for the 2024 Spring Graduation Ceremony for the Lamar Dodd School of Art. Photograph courtesy of Jason Thrasher.

 

Save the date! The Lamar Dodd School of Art will celebrate the graduating class of 2025 with a ceremony at the UGA Performing Arts Center on May 9, 2025 at 10 am followed by a reception at our main building on east campus. Check back for details and updates closer to the date of the ceremony.

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UGA Performing Arts Center

Exhibition Reception at the PAC | Director Joe Peragine

“Low Anchored Cloud/Spring Hoax” by Joseph Peragine, on view at the UGA Performing Arts Center, August 2024.

Painter and UGA professor Joseph Peragine has his first solo show on campus since becoming director of the Lamar Dodd School of Art two years ago. Low Anchored Cloud/Spring Hoax is on view at the UGA Performing Arts Center Lobby Gallery, which is free and open to the public weekdays between 10 a.m. and 5 p.m.

A reception honoring Peragine and his paintings will be held in the gallery Tuesday, August 20 at 5 p.m. Light refreshments will be served.

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UGA Performing Arts Center Lobby Gallery | 230 River Rd, Athens, GA 30605
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